Last modified: 2023-03-29

pacman

AUR helpers

yay

Skip integrity check (useful when importing GPG keys is not working):

$ yay -S --mflags --skipinteg <PACKAGE>

Troubleshooting

When upgrading the system with pacman -Syu or installing new packages, and you get a lot of errors in the stage checking package integrity that look soimething like this:

error: glibc: signature from "NAME NAME <EMAIL@EXAMPLE.com>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/PACKAGE.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).

Then you have obsolete pacman keys for signature verification.

Solution

# pacman -S archlinux-keyring
# pacman-key --refresh-keys

The refresh-keys might take a while and you might see a lot of errors - this is fine.